John Carter (politician, 1792)

John Carter (born September 10, 1792 in Camden , Kershaw County , South Carolina , † June 20, 1850 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1822 and 1829 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Carter was born on the Black River near Camden. After elementary school, he graduated from South Carolina College in Columbia , which later became the University of South Carolina . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1814, he began to work in Camden in his new profession.

Between 1814 and 1820 he held the office of Commissioner of Equity . Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . After the resignation of Congressman James Blair , he was elected in the necessary by-election in the ninth constituency of South Carolina as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington. There he ended the legislative period of his predecessor between December 11, 1822 and March 3, 1823.

In the regular election of 1822, Carter was elected to the eighth district in Congress . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1829. There he witnessed the heated political clashes between the supporters of President John Quincy Adams and the partisans of the later President Andrew Jackson , which Carter joined in the 1820s. The Democratic Party emerged from the Jackson movement in 1828 .

After his tenure in the House of Representatives, Carter returned to working as a lawyer in Camden. In 1836 he settled in Georgetown , a district of the federal capital Washington. He died there in June 1850.

Web links

• John Carter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Carter in the database of Find a Grave (English)